There's a whole lot of political correctness in a "definition" of each.

I don't have a tux or bowtie and I don't plan to get either. Anyhow, just because I've mud on my boots and dirt on my hands doesn't mean that I'm afraid of toffs.

Oh dear, Katie,Maybe I've already made your tea room into a bar room brawl. (Except that the toffs won't show up here, will they?)

Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:23 am

Katie

Joined: Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:13 amPosts: 194

Re: Obsequious, genteel, forthright.

Mud, boots, dirt? This is the place for you. I don't define gentlemen by their dress standards. It takes all kinds, and I generally like all kinds. That is except for boorishly behaved types using forums to push their agendas. Agendas which don't agree with mine, that is.

_________________On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

Mud, boots, dirt? This is the place for you. I don't define gentlemen by their dress standards. It takes all kinds, and I generally like all kinds. That is except for boorishly behaved types using forums to push their agendas. Agendas which don't agree with mine, that is.

Or agendas that don't agree with mine, eh? Nah! too boring! Let's go into the highways and byways and look for a scrap that might yield a soul, not just a pompous dissertation.

Even though I'd had a touch too much cheap wine and I was feeling grumpy when I started this thread, the issue still is that Catholicism is not just for highbrow types. Too many people are frightened away by too much social rectitude... conventional "politeness", and other merely socio-cultural mores.

I think that there are many, many rough, grubby, but morally and intellectually honest people "out there" who would be pleased to be able to discuss or enliven their (perhaps latent) Faith if they could do so in their native idiom, even if such might entail a bit of idiomatic scrapping.

Just my opinion.

Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:58 am

Katie

Joined: Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:13 amPosts: 194

Re: Obsequious, genteel, forthright.

Start scrappin'...

_________________On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

_________________On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

It's looking like you'll have to go into the highways and byways to collect a bunch of rowdies to fill your Tea Room, Katie!(I think there's a precedent in the Parables by Himself, isn't there?)

Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:28 am

Katie

Joined: Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:13 amPosts: 194

Re: Obsequious, genteel, forthright.

I don't want rowdies to fill the Tea Room. One is just fine. Even if I don't manage to provoke him enough so as to be able to provoke me. Keep trying.

_________________On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

Oh I don't know. I think you're doing a pretty good job of it. In fact, I am thinking about renaming the Tea Room "Dave 'n' Kate's Place".

_________________On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

Just wondering - is your username meant to be read "Ol' David" or "Old Avid?"

_________________“Never act with a view to pleasing the world. Let us have the strength to bear criticisms and the disapproval of the world. Let us have no human respect. Provided that God is pleased, what does the rest matter?” Card. R. Merry del Val

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